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By rejecting $1bn for pipeline, a First Nation put Trudeau climate plan on trial
2016-03-20 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Everything has a price. Everyone can be bought. We assume this principle is endemic to modern life -- and that accepting it is most obvious to the impoverished. Except all over the world, people are defying it for a greater cause. That courage may be even more contagious. It has been in full supply in north-west Canada, where an oil giant is aiming to construct one of countrys biggest fossil fuel developments: a pipeline to ship liquified natural gas (LNG) out of British Colombia. To export it...
Nuclear power best to fight climate change
2016-03-20 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delmarva Daily Times: In the battle against climate change, one of the best-kept secrets is the small modular reactor. The U.S. fleet of about 100 nuclear power plants consists of large reactors of 1,200 megawatts or more. These plants produce more than 60 percent of the nation's carbon-free electricity, far more than solar and wind energy combined, and reactors like those at the Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland supply power around the clock, day after day, regardless of weather conditions. According to the Energy...
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Remote reefs thrive despite climate change
2016-03-20 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Union-Tribune: As ocean warming continues to trigger widespread destruction of coral reefs, a decade-long study of remote islands in the Central Pacific suggests these biodiversity hotspots may be able to thrive despite the threats posed by an increasingly hotter planet. With many parts of the globe in the grip of a nearly two-year coral reef bleaching event -- fueled in part by El Nio-driven ocean warming -- scientists and marine conservation advocates have feared many reefs could suffer irreparable damage...
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Climate change could see half a reservoir of Hong Kong's potable water evaporate
2016-03-20 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Post: Warmer temperatures brought about by climate change could see up to 7.3 million cubic metres more of Hong Kongs potable water about half of the Shing Mun Reservoir literally evaporate every year by the end of the century, an environmental group has warned. Rainfall helps offset evaporation from reservoirs in most years, but Green Power said the lack of necessary research would jeopardise the citys long-term water supplies as global warming caused more extreme weather patterns such as droughts...
Leonardo DiCaprio Says China Can Be 'Climate Change Hero'
2016-03-20 10:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Leonardo DiCaprio praised China's work to combat climate change on a trip to Beijing on Sunday, and said he believes the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be "the hero of the environmental movement." The actor and environmentalist, who called for action to combat climate change during his Oscar acceptance speech last month, praised China's shift toward renewable forms of energy to lower carbon emissions. "As we all know, the United States and China are the two biggest contributors,...
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